Oct 08, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Nutrition and Food Science, Family and Consumer Sciences Community Education Concentration, B.S.


Human Sciences   
615-898-2091
Janet Colson, program director
Janet.Colson@mtsu.edu

The major in Nutrition and Food Science with a concentration in Family and Consumer Sciences Community Education is designed to prepare students to work in extension service, business, consumer services, and government agencies.

Academic Map


Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Nutrition and Food Science, Family and Consumer Sciences Community Education, B.S., Academic Map   

Degree Requirements


True Blue Core (TBC)      41 hours
Major Requirements 60 hours
Electives or Minor 19-25 hours*
TOTAL 120 hours

*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours may increase.

True Blue Core (41 hours)


True Blue Core (TBC)  requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.

The following courses required by the program meet True Blue Core requirements:

Major Requirements (60 hours)


Nutrition and Food Science Core (6 hours)


Minor or Electives (19-25 hours)


Curriculum: Nutrition and Food Science, Family and Consumer Sciences Community Education


Freshman Fall


Subtotal: 16 Hours


Freshman Spring


Subtotal: 16 Hours


Sophomore Fall


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Sophomore Spring


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Junior Fall


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Junior Spring


Subtotal: 16 Hours


Senior Fall


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Senior Spring


Subtotal: 12 Hours